Report: Hillary insiders eager to recruit anti-Trump Republicans

Now, with no real path to the nomination but no apparent willingness to drop out, Sanders’ top aides and supporters began making a new argument to justify the long slog: it’s great for Clinton.

It’s not an opinion necessarily shared in her circles; Clinton insiders are eager to begin recruiting Republicans turned off by the prospect of Donald Trump to their cause — and the threat of Sanders sticking it out until June makes the general election pivot more difficult.

But even if Sanders can’t win, his operatives contend, his participation in the process will boost turnout among Democratic voters and keeps Clinton in the news — the alternative, they argue, is ceding months of headlines to Trump and the fractured Republican party.